Splav meduze

The film captured the atmosphere of the 192Os with almost effortless ease. This is a story of two school teachers Kristina and Ljiljana, the former a Slovene and the latter a Serb woman, lost somewhere in the Yugoslav provinces of the north. It is imbued from start to finish with the literary and visual spice of Dada and Surrealism. The story itself, ambling every which way, is hardly of importance; what's important is that the teachers are forever dreaming of a new life in a big city. But - like those adrift on Gericault's raft named Medusa in that classic painting of the French Romantic period - the important thing may just be being on the move in a sea of chaos. The main question of the film is, did the avantgarde movement had sense on the Balkans?